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Face to Face

Andreas — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:05:20 +0000

A five days workshop at doc:LAB in Istanbul.

“In how many ways and with what techniques can one produce variations on the human faces seen from the front? The graphic designer works without set limits and without rejecting any possible combinations and methods in order to arrive at the precise image he needs for the job in hand, and no other.
Looking at the technique of the past we notice that a human face made in mosaic has a different structure from one painted on the wall, drawn in chiaroscuro, carved in stone, and so on.
The features—eyes, nose and mouth—are ‘structured’ differently. In the same way if one is thinking of making a face out of glass, wire, folded paper, woven straw, inflatable rubber, strips of woods, plastic, fiberglass, or wire netting.
The relationship between the features will have to be adapted to each material.”
in Bruno Munari, Arte come mestiere, 1966
(english version, Design as Art, Penguin Books)

For the first three days we (Alain Bellet from ECAL and me) used processing to build some very basic (almost trivial) tools to cover a set of six topics we identified around the human face:

Pareidolia
Symmetry
Expression (not explored)
Proportion
Mirror
Mask (not explored)

In the last two days students were then asked to explore one of the subjects and to develop a personal project around it.

For more images and an overview of the five workshops held visit doc:LAB’s blog.

I love you

Andreas — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:18:18 +0000

Second electronic typewriter.
Be romantic.

Processing book-covers

Andreas — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:31:47 +0000

Fresh out of print the new book for the Museo Cantonale d’Arte of the “Sguardi” series.
Every book features works from the collection of the museum.
The semi-irregular background patterns are generated with the aid of processing.
2 colors offset print on colored paper.

Stopmotion experiments

Andreas — Sun, 30 May 2010 12:13:55 +0000

An ongoing collection of stopmotion clips.

n2
n3
n5
n6
n10
n11
n12
n13
n14
n15
n18
n22

Race! 2

Andreas — Fri, 07 May 2010 10:02:20 +0000

Second edition of the Race! workshop. This time for three days in a beautiful villa in Vico-Morcote over the lake.
Thanks to all the participants, to MAInD for the organisation, to Renato and Serena.

Studio Vacchini

Andreas — Sat, 01 May 2010 00:59:16 +0000

New website for Studio di Architettura Vacchini.
Founder of the studio was architect Livio Vacchini but the studio is now ruled by his daughter Eloisa and the former team.
The site features thirty-six projects and complete bibliography and project lists.
Visit: studiovacchini.ch

Un vero amico

Andreas — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:11:25 +0000

A website for a campaign which aims to protect the ears of the youngsters.
Visit: unveroamico.ch

Race!

Andreas — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:48:32 +0000

Race! was a five days programming workshop at ECAL in Lausanne.
I asked the students to develop a race game. A video-game is a very good subject if you want to experiment with interaction, but I was scared about the complexity even a basic a.i. system could achieve. So the game had to be for two (or more) players, this simplified the code a lot and it also was a lot more fun.
I also didn’t want the students to invest too much time in developing graphics, sceneries, backdrops: we used real objects/architecture as “levels” and simply mapped the software around it. This approach is very fast and can produce some interesting concepts.
Technical aspects touched:
Input devices (joypads, keyboard, microphone, etc)
Video projection and mapping
Interactivity
Graphics and kinematics
As programming environment we used Processing.

Hms

Andreas — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:01:19 +0000

A project started a few months ago. Now also on iPhone and iPad.
Built with openFrameworks.
Read more at gysin-vanetti.com.

Ertdfgcvb

Andreas — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:41:18 +0000

The old site is gone.
I migrated some of the projects to the new layout, they are archived in “past”.
Nostalgia: ertdfgcvb.ch (2001-2009)

C’era due volte una nonna

Andreas — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:22:05 +0000

Stage design for a piece written for children with one actor. The hole set had to fit in a car: 17 foldable cardboard boxes, a 5000 ansi-lumen projector, a laptop, clothes and a chair.
The software is written in processing and features 15 different realtime animated scenes with different transitions that are mapped on the boxes.

Kong

Andreas — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:44:25 +0000

First of the electronic typewriter series.
Become hollywoodian with Kong.
Technical notes: the applet is embedded with Sun’s deployJava.js and is made with processing.

Beam!

Andreas — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:25:54 +0000

A five days workshop at ECAL, Lausanne.

Mae

Andreas — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:26:26 +0000

A website for swiss-belt-manufacturer mae.
I wanted to display the feel of the exclusive fabric by reproducing the belts in actual size.
If you lost some weight order a new belt at maemade.ch.

The wall

Andreas — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:07:45 +0000

Colors in precarious equilibrium.
Destroy the wall

Processing flyers

Andreas — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:30:27 +0000

Series of 4 posters and event-programs.
The patterns are computed with processing.
The motive of the first poster is inspired by—and is a hommage to—Nobuo Nakagaki’s experimental digital map of Africa.
3 colors offset print, versions for A0 and A4.

EBSCO visual-search prototypes

Andreas — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:17:25 +0000

I was asked to create two prototypes to graphically display the search results of the powerful EBSCOhost online research databases.

“Blocks” prototype:

“Columns” prototype:

VW Golf

Andreas — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:07:57 +0000

The idea of the dashed trace left by the the car has made it trough for the launch campaign of a new VW Golf in Brazil. Their website opened with a 3d interactive animation, featuring a Golf and, of course, the black dashes.
Drive a non-polluting VW Golf.

Sky

Andreas — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 17:09:18 +0000

A particle experiment.
Fly in the blue sky.

Homedrive

Andreas — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:10:55 +0000

A mini-racing game developed for Radix. Features 9 levels and a global high-score table.
Written in Lingo and published as a bonus for a “don’t drink&drive” campaign.
The name of the game was inspired by a computer virus.

Worms

Andreas — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:03:08 +0000

A lot of black worms.
They are part of your life.
Once loaded press any key for slow-as-hell-anti-aliased graphics.

F/a-18

Andreas — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 11:46:25 +0000

Fly in the black sky.
Take off with an F/a-18

Magneto 2

Andreas — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 18:04:49 +0000

Dark cubes, light.
Play with Magneto 2

Dialer

Andreas — Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:46:21 +0000

More a sketch than a project of a kind of audio-visual toy…
Try your chance with the dialer.

Molecule

Andreas — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:59:42 +0000

Spring connected spheres, mutating color-schemes.
Get scientific with the molecule.

Me

Andreas — Thu, 27 May 2004 13:32:03 +0000

About me and my dumb face (of 2004).
Simply enjoying the smooth embedding of Processing applets via deployJava.js…
Come and play with me.

Wires

Andreas — Fri, 14 May 2004 10:08:22 +0000

A visceral animation.
Be a modern Theseus an play with the wires.

Missile

Andreas — Tue, 04 May 2004 11:20:25 +0000

A weapon in outer space.
Get peaceful with the missile.

Hidden landscapes

Andreas — Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:19:40 +0000

Hi-resolution scans of common objects.
Fulfill your wildest dream and become an insect and fly over a leaf or a 50chf bill.

Free flight

Andreas — Sun, 12 Oct 2003 10:45:14 +0000

Second of the “flight” series.
This is really a Free flight.

Fan and Ball

Andreas — Wed, 03 Sep 2003 07:37:16 +0000

Created in 2003 with the excellent Havok physics-engine. Updated in 2008 as Macromedia/Adobe dropped Havok. Why?
Play with a fan and a ball.

Dragon 4b

Andreas — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 20:41:29 +0000

Last attempt to model a creature with simple forms: rectangles and octahedrons… not really sure about it.

Ride the dragon (4b).

Ultramoiré

Andreas — Thu, 15 May 2003 05:45:50 +0000

An apptempt to create moiré patterns with a ribbon-like form.
Press any key to change pattern type, click to freeze the shape.
Explore interferences with ultramoiré.

Ultrashape

Andreas — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 06:52:11 +0000

An attempt to create random forms on a very strong set of rules. An invisible 3d grid lies underneath the shapes.
Press any key to change shape; click to freeze.
Visit: Ultrashape

Black mirror

Andreas — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 10:17:59 +0000

A dark piece.
Find yourself.

The car

Andreas — Wed, 21 Aug 2002 20:30:48 +0000

Drive around…
…and draw around with the car.

Arsenaux 25, 27, 29, 31

Andreas — Fri, 05 Jul 2002 11:13:36 +0000

A light-show performed the 5. of July 2002 in rue des Arsenaux, Fribourg.
For each of the 115 windows of the building a unique score was written. The partition was printed on fluorescent paper as it had to be readable also in the dark.
Behind each window an inhabitant of rue des Arsenaux activating a light switch and synchronized with the other performers by a timecode—a numerical sequence read at regular interval transmitted live on a local radio network.
The public took place on the big lawn in front of the building.
Duration: 180 frames or about 8 minutes.
Realization: about one and a half year.

Fly!

Andreas — Sat, 23 Mar 2002 11:54:32 +0000

One of my first attempts in 3d. In dry wireframe.
Learn to fly!.

Kiddysinth

Andreas — Sun, 23 Sep 2001 20:54:30 +0000

A sound-toy attempt: the idea was to build a kind of asynchronous percussive/melodic instrument.
Every now and then I want to rewrite the program from scratch and — first of all — change it’s name. Andre Michelle did a nice step in the right direction… maybe now it’s my turn to build a new version (iPad would be a nice platform!).
Press ’h’ for help.
Be musical with Kiddysinth.